It's a pun, referring to sisters, and can also refer to Jin Yu'e and Xianglan.
Xianglan could guess Yunqi's identity at once. Firstly, he was handsome, and secondly, Young Master Yunshang was well-known in Huajie and Liuxiang. Even though she had never seen him before, he was still like him.
But on the other hand, Xianglan is also a thoughtful and well-rounded person.
Therefore, Yun Qi was not worried that she would not understand the underlying meaning.
"Something happened in Yi County that day..." Xianglan lowered her head for a while and said hesitantly: "The non-nu family is unwilling to speak. The prince and the young lady know that people with status like the slave family are most afraid of being involved in human lives. Although Liu Zhiquan died due to an accident, he Once you get a little higher, it’s hard to get out. It’s not easy to make a living, so who can care about others.”
Yun Qi flipped the jade pendant on the jade bone fan and showed a considerate smile: "We are entrusted by others. You can just talk here and we can just listen."
Xianglan frowned: "Are they Liu Zhiquan's family?"
"Absolutely." Yun Qi secretly thought that they were investigating the case for Jin Yu'e. Jin Yu'e was Liu Zhiquan's concubine. After all, it was not almost the same.
Xianglan shook her head and smiled bitterly: "I think Mrs. Liu has misunderstood. The slave family has nothing to do with Shopkeeper Liu. It's just a money transaction, so she can rest assured."
"It doesn't matter that the person is dead. Why don't you tell me, what did Liu Zhiquan ask you to do that day?"
Xianglan's brows twitched slightly, and her face looked a little sad as if she was surprised to hear that an acquaintance had passed away. "Gone? When the slave family left Yixian, they only said that he was bedridden, but they didn't expect..." The person was just gone.
The emotions couldn't be faked. Lu Anran waited for her to recover before saying, "I heard that your illness a few days ago was related to this matter?"
"Yes." Xianglan lowered her head, stroked Yun's temples, and sighed: "The slave family is not in trouble. The carriage suddenly crashed that day. Shopkeeper Liu was covered in blood. He was really frightened. After returning to the capital, he kept talking intermittently. I have been sick for several days."
Yun Qi took advantage of the situation and asked again: "Where does Liu Zhiquan ask you to go?"
"I don't know the details of the slave family. It seems that he held a banquet to invite people to discuss business, but something happened before he got there. The slave family didn't see anyone."
"There is also a brothel and a brothel in Yi County. Why do you choose the distance instead of the nearer and come to the capital to find you?"
"He said that the guest asked for the servant's companionship."
The jade pendant on the jade bone fan swayed slowly, and the candlelight shone on it, and a flash of brilliant light passed through Yunqi's eyes, bringing out a bit of contemplation.
Rich people rarely have to find a few women from the romantic market to accompany them when eating, drinking and having fun. However, this guest directly named Qiongxian Lou's name. Could it be that he is from Wangdu?
"I wonder if I can ask how much silver it would cost to invite Miss Xianglan out." Lu Anran said from the side.
Pandan pursed her red lips lightly, her confident eyes and haggard face became brighter, "A hundred taels for a building, a thousand for a city."
Lu Anran thought about the old time when she managed to get a thousand taels of silver from selling jewelry, and sighed in her heart, it was so expensive.
Although he is a noble man, as a child he only gets a monthly salary, and he will not give him too much money to avoid squandering it.
"It seems that there is a lot of money, but the slave family can only make money in the past few years. It is hard to plan for the future. Besides, those gentlemen don't care about this little money. The more expensive it is, the more it will be good for them."
Lu Anran thought of Fei Yan's words, he was indeed a very understanding person.
"Liu Zhiquan's shop is running well, but it's not easy to just take out a thousand taels of silver." Yun Qi said, thinking about what Li'er Niang said about the thousands of taels of debt. Could it be that they were all thrown into the brothel? .
However, Xianglan immediately rejected his speculation, "You may not believe it, but the person who came to the building to find the slave was Mrs. Jin next to Liu Zhiquan, and she also used the money."
Yunqi blinked at Lu Anran - oh, he's still a softie.
It just happened to mention the Jin family, so they didn't have to make too many twists and turns, so he followed her topic and said, "I remember, when Liu Zhiquan's accident happened, there was a wife with him. I heard that he was the one who found the wife?"
"Well, Mrs. Jin spends money generously and is a rare and generous woman."
"You guys have been traveling together, can you tell what the relationship between her and Liu Zhiquan is like?"
After a few words, Xianglan's eyes were full of suspicion, "Shopkeeper Liu is gone, does his wife still need to know this?"
Yun Qi gave a pretentious sigh, "Oh, women are always a little reluctant when encountering this kind of thing. Can Miss Xianglan understand?"
Xianglan's eyes rolled slightly. It was not like she had never seen some tough ladies at home come to arrest people in the brothel. Her words were full of anger and anger. She hated her husband for lusting after women, and blamed goblins for bewitching her men. The most annoying thing was It's just that men would rather seduce women outside and ignore them when they go home.
Thinking of this, Xianglan felt that she understood Mrs. Liu's resentment, and instead felt sorry for her.
"I hope Mrs. Liu will let herself go. After all, Shopkeeper Liu..." Xianglan said: "Mrs. Jin is capable. It's not like she can't find a man if she wants. But she chose Shopkeeper Liu just because Shopkeeper Liu’s face is two-thirds similar to her late husband’s.”
Lu Anran and Yun Qi never expected this.
Xianglan said with emotion: "The slaves only listened to a few words when they talked on the road, but Mrs. Jin was neat in doing things and generous. Even for men, few people could match her. As for shopkeeper Liu, to be honest, The slave family has seen many rich and powerful men, but he is mediocre at most."
Not top-notch, not clumsy, not so-so.
"So..." Yun Qi picked up the tea cup, blew on it, raised his eyelids as if drinking tea, and said, "The person who started this banquet is actually Jin Yu'e."
Suddenly mentioning her real name, Xianglan was stunned for a moment before nodding: "It should be that the slave family and shopkeeper Liu listen to Mrs. Jin, and they don't seem to be able to make the decision."
After Yun Qi finished drinking the tea, he didn't put the cup down immediately. He put it to his lips and looked at Xiang Lan, his dark eyes a little deeper, "How much do you know about Jin Yu'e?"
Xianglan's heart skipped a beat, and she grasped the handkerchief fiercely. Her already fragile expression became a little more uneasy, "Could it be that the Crown Prince came here today not for Liu Zhiquan, but for..." She swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said with great difficulty: "Did something happen to Mrs. Jin?"
Everyone in the capital knew that Yun Qi had taken the post of the Criminal Division. It was strange that he suddenly came to ask Liu Zhiquan that he had called Xianglan. But in the end, she found that Yun Qi was more interested in Jin Yu'e, and her mind suddenly felt like After being poured a basin of cold water, I shivered.
Yun Qi opened the jade bone fan, waved it a few times to make his hair flamboyant, and wrote lightly: "You only need to answer my prince's words."
Xianglan bit her lip, her pale lips turned bloody immediately, and she lowered her eyes and said, "The Nu family and Mrs. Jin have never been friends. This is the only trip, so what we know is limited. As for the others, I really don't know."
If she asked anything later, Xianglan was a little weak and she really couldn't ask, so the two of them stood up and left.
Before going out, Xianglan suddenly shouted: "Prince Yun! Shopkeeper Liu and Mrs. Jin successively... Could it be something is causing trouble? The slave family, the slave family will not..."
Yun Qi thought that when she saw Liu Zhiquan injured, she was so frightened that she became ill for several days. The woman was timid, so she comforted him: "It has nothing to do with you."
Xianglan sent the two of them out in a daze. The little maid came up to remove her hairpin, but she didn't seem to feel it. After a long time, she took back her soul that had left her body, and sighed quietly in the mirror: "Why did everything happen?"
Feiyan was waiting outside at the corner. When she saw someone coming out, she bid farewell to Lu Anran and Yun Qi. In order not to attract attention, she let the original little maid go out the door.
"It's unexpected that Jin Yu'e found Liu Zhiquan because of their similar appearance." Yun Qi and Lu Anran stood a distance away from the little maid, and they talked in a low voice.
Lu Anran frowned and thought, "Your Majesty, I think what you said today is somewhat credible."
Yun Qi tapped his chest with the handle of the fan, looked at the lights leading the way and said, "It doesn't sound like a lie, but it seems like there is something hidden."
"Yeah." Lu Anran nodded, "She's very scared."
Liu Zhiquan had an accident due to a carriage accident, and she didn't know how Jin Yu'e died. She had nothing to do with the two of them. If it was just because they met and traveled together, it would be far-fetched to be very frightened when she heard that the two of them had been in accidents. On the contrary, it would be more appropriate to be frightened and happy. common sense.
"Let people keep an eye on it first, and who Jin Yu'e entertained that day is worth scrutinizing." Yun Qi finished speaking and had already arrived at the back door.
Going back through the back alley, I saw a group of people heading towards the gate of Qiongxian Tower. The leader was a middle-aged man with a square face like a knife, wearing a dark green brocade robe, and he was very powerful.
After stepping forward, he suddenly turned his head and looked in the direction of Lu Anran and Yun Qi. In the puzzled eyes of the two people, they actually nodded in this direction.
Lu Anran didn't know this person, but for some reason, she always felt that this glaring look in her back made her feel familiar, and she couldn't help but ask, "Who is he?"
Yun Qi smiled slightly: "Liu Xiang's subordinate is named Pang Jing."
Not long after, Pang Jing seemed to have escorted a few people from Qiongxian Tower, and left in a hurry with his men, heading towards Jingzhao Mansion.
"It seems that this matter is not easy to solve, so Liu Xiangcai personally sent someone to take action." Yun Qi said playfully.
"Why?"
"Do you know who is behind Qiongxian Tower?"
After exiting the fireworks alley, the two came to Xuanwu Street, which was still some distance away from the West Market. However, they could hear the shouts coming from there, which made it seem even quieter here.
Yun Qi pointed in the east direction, "Inside the Imperial City, you know?"
The emperor has other ears and eyes, and the real dragon emperor disdains these heresy; the harem should be respected by the queen but does not have the emperor's heart. The concubine Shu relies on her natal family to sit on an equal footing with her and manage the six palaces.
In addition, the queen's health was exhausted after giving birth to the third prince, and she had nothing to produce after that. Concubine Shu gave birth to the second prince, the fifth prince, and the fourth princess in succession, so she was favored like never before.
Lu Anran thought of the Queen's mother's father's Yushitai background, specializing in admonishment, picketing, and impeachment, so he asked, "Could it be the Liu family?"
The Liu family is the maiden family of Concubine Shu. Her father is a first-class Duke of the State, and her elder brother is the general of Baihu Camp. She is a holy family member.
Yun Qi smiled meaningfully, "You only heard about Gu Yushi, how come you don't know about Gu Lang Zhongling?"
